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Knox  County  Farm  Bureau 

Qalesburg,  Illinois 


1DHI]  SUPPORT  IT? 

Because  it  is  an  organization  of,  by  and  for  the  farmer. 

Because — It  asks  for  a fair,  square  deal  for  the  producers  of 
food. 

Because — It  stands  for  fair  prices  and  orderly  marketing  of 
grain  and  livestock. 

Because — It  offers  the  farmer  protection  against  blue  sky  pro- 
moters and  fake  schemes  of  various  kinds. 

Because — It  gets  a hearing  in  legislative  halls  where  the  farmer 
as  an  individual  could  no  nothing. 

Because — All  other  industries  are  organized  and  it  is  only  with 
organization  that  these  other  organizations  can  be  met. 

Because* — Agriculture  represents  the  greatest  capital,  the  most 
people,  and  the  greatest  area  of  any  enterprise  in  the  world,  but  the 
lack  of  organization  heretofore  has  made  the  farmer  dependent  rather 
than  assertive. 

Because — It  offers  the  greatest  opportunity  the  farmers  of  the 
nation  have  ever  had  for  attaining  their  real  place  in  the  social  and 
economic  machinery  of  the  world. 

Because — It  is  a safe  and  sane  organization,  not  intending  to 
undertake  anything  objectionable  to  those  who  wish  to  be  fair.  Any 
enemies  it  may  have  will  be  those  who  have  profited  at  the  farmers’ 
expense.  If  the  farmer  doesn’t  support  it,  who  in  the  world  will? 


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<The  Knox  County  Farm  Bureau  1921 

1.  Tested  175  soil  samples  for  acidity. 

2.  Ordered  1100  tons  limestone  and  100  tons  rock  phosphate. 

3.  Furnished  an  exchange  without  charge  for  402  bu.  clover 
seed  and  123  bu.  timothy  seed.,-  ; 

4.  Conducted  campaign  for  higher  yielding  corn  and  wheat, 
resulting  in  8 bu.  more  wheat  per  acre  on  725  acres  and  increased 
yield  and  quality  of  corn. 

5.  Organized  14  out  of  16  livestock  shipping  associations,  which 
handled  over  1000  cars  stock  in  1921,  valued  at  $1,500,000. 

6.  Organized  two  purebred  livestock  associations  and  assisted 
the  two  formed  the  year  before. 

7.  Reorganized  cow  testing  associat:on,  securing  many  new 
members. 

8.  Managed  two  pure  bred  livestock  sales. 

9.  Assisted  in  purchase  and  sale -of- pure  bred  stock. 

10.  Aided  in  getting  Federal  Inspector  located  at  Galesburg, 
thereby  enabling  members  to  get  their  herds  tested  free  of  charge 
and  collect  over  $7,000  in  indemnities  on  reactors. 

11.  Pooled  57,254  lbs.  wool  and  ordered  151  wool  blankets, 
25  auto  robes  and  90  wool  batts  for  members. 

12.  Ordered  8,000  bu,  potatoes,  thereby  keeping  the  price  at  a 
fair  level. 

14.  Assisted  192  boys  and  girls  with  club  projects. 

: 15.  Developed  club  livestock  judging  team  and  demonstration 

team  for  State  Fair. 

< ' 16,  Gave  detailed  instruction  td  104  men  throughout  the  season 

in  caring  for  their  orchards. 

17. :  Helped  establish  fair  farm  labor  prices  and  supplied  help 
to  many  farmers. 

18.  Published  free  exchange  list  .advertising  , farmers  produce  in 
monthly  bulletin. 

19.  Secured  land  value  estimates  from  representative  farmers  in 
each  township  for  I,  A.  A.  tax  committee  to  lay  before  State  Tax 
Commission. 

20.  Helped  plan  a great  mahy  farm  buildings. 

21.  Secured  the  analyses  of  farm  seeds  a number  of  members 
had  for  sale. 

22.  Held  rope  splicing  demonstrations  and  spliced  hay  ropes 
for  members. 

23.  Conducted  15  poultry  culling  demonstrations. 

24.  A livestock  survey  was  made  for  the  I.  A.  A. 

25*  Held  4358  office  consultations. 

26.  Mailed  6,115  personal  and  22,053  circular  letters. 


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27.  Wrote  263  newspaper  articles. 

28.  Held  299  meetings  with  total  attendance  of  10,000.. 

29.  Conducted  four  farm  tours. 

30/  Made  1,614  farm  visits. 

31.  Arranged  agricultural  exhibits  for  three  fairs. 

32.  Helped  make  possible  the  accomplishments  of  the  I.  A.  A. 
and  the  A.  F.  B.  F.  For  without  strong  working  county  units  neither 
of  these  great  farmer  organ’zations  can  exist. 


CThe  Illinois  Agricultural  Association 

Your  State  Association  has  summarized  its  achievements  during 
the  past  year  as  follows: 

1.  Sold  co-operatively  wool,  livestock,  harness,  seed,  feed,  etc. 

. ..  2.  Established  grain,  livestock,  dairy,  vegetable  and  fruit  mar- 

keting departments. 

3.  Organized  livestock  .shipping  associations. 

4.  Appropriated  funds  to  finance  farmers’ marketing  committee. 

5.  Equalized  water  gnd  rail  rates. 

* • 6.  Relieved  car  shortage. 

. ; ,,7,  ..Secured  .release  of  coat  for  threshing  purposes. 

S.  Established  co-operatives. 

9.  Saved  $30,000  on  700  cars  of  rock  phosphate. 

10.  Saved  $91,000  on  the  purchase  of  fertilizer. 

11.  Saved  $19,800  on  sale  of  wool. 

12.  Saved  $8,500  On  sale  of  17,000  bushels  of  potatoes. 

13.  Established  , livestock  exchange  with  $25,000  business  first 
two  months. 

; 14.  : Saved  $60  per  ton  on  the  purchase  of  white  arsenic. 

15.  Reduced  price  of  ,16  per  cent  ac'd  phosphate  from  $31  to 
$20  per  ton. 

16.  Secured  a 40  per  cent  reduction  on  freight  rate  on  ground 
limestone  and  ground  material. 

17.  Marketed  750,000  pounds  of  clover  seed. 

18.  Saved  from  $3  to  $13  per  ton  on  commercial  fertilizer. 

i 19.  Secured  $23, 6Q0  in  three  months  through  the  presentation  of 

railroad  claims  for  members  of  the  Farm  Bureau. 

20.  Secured  appropriation  for  eradication  of  tuberculosis  in 
cattle. 

0 21.  Secured  revision  of  milk  standards. 

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22.  Prevented  undue  discrimination  against  loans  for  agricul- 
tural production. 

23.  Standardized  ice  cream. 

24.  Secured  laws  regulating  maintenance  and  improvements  of 
state  and  county  roads. 

25.  Opened  livestock  exchanges  to  farmers’  co-operative  com- 
mission companies. 

26.  Obtained  state  aid  to  county  fairs. 

27.  Opened  grain  exchanges  for  farmers’  co-operative  commis- 
sion companies. 

28.  Placed  farm  mortgages  on  the  same  basis  as  other  mortgages. 

29.  Secured  enabling  legislation  for  organization  of  farmers’ 
commodity  marketing  associations. 

30.  Supported  adequate  appropriations  for  agricultural  col- 
leges, state  departments  of  agriculture*  state  universities. 

31.  Secured  legislation  prohibiting  the  manufacture  and  sale  of 
filled  milk. 


The  .American  Farm  Bureau  Federation 

One  Year’s  Work  Shows  Much  Accomplished 

The  American  Farm  Bureau  Federation  has  summarized  its  ac- 
complishments in  the  following  statements : 

1.  Growing  from  nothing  to  a million  and  a half  members. 

2.  Gaining  the  confidence  of  the  public  in  the  farmers’  ability 
to  handle  their  business  in  an  organized  way  and  in  a manner  that 
serves  the  best  interests  of  the  nation  as  well  as  the  farming  industry. 

3.  Secured  endorsement  of  47  states  for  organizing  farmers 
into  effective  working  Farm  Bureaus — county,  state  and  national. 

4.  Called  national  commodity  marketing  conferences  on  grain, 
live  stock,  fruit,  dairy  products,  cotton  and  wool. 

5.  Appointed  a committee  of  seventeen  to  work  . out  a national 
grain  marketing  plan,  which  was  accepted  by  producers’  organizations 
and  is  now  known  as  the  U.  S.  Grain  Growers,  Inc. 

6.  Appointed  a committee  of  fifteen  to  formulate  a national 
livestock  marketing  plan. 

7.  Appointed  a committee  of  twenty-one  to  work  out  a na- 
tional fruit  marketing  plan. 

8.  Appointed  a committee  of  eleven  to  work  out  a national 
dairy,  marketing  plan. 

9.  Appointed  a committee  of  ten  to  develop  a uniform  vegeta- 
ble marketing  system. 

10.  Appointed  a committee  of  twenty-five  to  develop  the  co- 
operative wolo  pools,  which  handled  40,000,000  pounds  of  the  1920 
clip  in  ten  states. 

11.  Endorsed  the  American  Cotton  Growers’  Exchange  plan  for 
the  co-operatiye  marketing  of  cotton. 

12.  During  the  freight  tie-up,  persuading  the  U.  S.  Shipping 
Board  to  have  36  Great  Lakes  boats  to  handle  grain,  thus  releasing 
72  trains  of  freight  cars  for  other  purposes. 

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13.  Securing  credit  for  farmers  by  persuading  Federal  Reserve 
Board  to  direct  banks  to  accept  storage  warehouse  receipts  on  wool 
and  wheat  for  collateral  on  loans  and  by  influencing  the  Board  to 
deposit  $30,000,000  in  mid  west  banks  to  finance  moving  of  grain  crops. 

14.  Securing  appropriations  to  fight  European  Corn  Borer. 

15.  Causing  Ralston-Nolan  land  tax  bill  to  be  at  least  tem- 
porarily pigeon-holed  through  a nation-wide  referendum.  This  would 
mean  a tax  of  about  $320  on  160  acres  of  Illinois  land. 

16.  Reduced  railway  valuation  for  purposes  of  computing  guar- 
anteed earnings,  $1,700,000,000,  making  an  average  saving  of  $30  each 
for  every  farmer  in  the  United  States. 

17.  Secured  millions  of  additional  credit  for  farmers  by  father- 
ing billion-dollar  War  Finance  Corporation  farm  export  measure,  by 
advocating  extension  of  Federal  Farm  Loan  System,  and  by  inducing 
Federal  Reserve  System  to  favor  mommodity  financing  principles. 

18.  Assisted  in  securing  regulation  of  packers  and  grain  ex- 
changes by  supporting  Federal  control  measures. 

19.  Directed  national  attention  to  agriculture’s  legislative  prob- 
lems and  secured  favorable  attitude  toward  appointment  of  farmer- 
minded  men  to  high  places  in  councils  of  the  nation. 

20.  Established  a Department  of  Organization  to  assist  farmers 
to  organize  county  farm  bureaus  for  self-help. 

21.  Established  a Department  of  Co-operative  Marketing  to 
promote  farmer-owned  and  controlled  distributive  systems. 

32.  Established  a Washington  office  for  studying  national  leg- 
islative policies  and  voicing  the  farmers’  viewpoint. 

23.  Established  a Department  of  Transportation  to  aid  shippers 
in  solving  traffic  problems  and  in  adjusting  rate  inequalities. 

24.  Established  a Research  Department  for  a study  of  the 
farmers’  economic  problems. 

25.  Established  a Department  of  Information  to  acquaint  farm- 
ers with  the  Farm  Bureau  movement  and  to  educate  the  public  to  a 
sympathetic  understanding  of  the  farmers’  problems. 

26.  Gained  confidence  of  the  public  in  the  farmers’  ability  to 
handle  their  business  in  an  organized  way  and  in  a manner  that  serves 
the  best  interests  of  the  Nation  as  well  as  the  farming  industry. 

27.  Established  a Taxation  Service  and  outlined  a definite  policy 
for  justly  collecting  Federal  revenue. 

28.  Gathered  and  shipped  to  Europe  700,000  bushels  of  farmers’ 
gift  corn,  thereby  saving  from  starvation  thousands  of  children. 

29.  Issued  a questionnaire  involving  sixteen  definite  problems 
of  national  policy  and  presented  “yes”  and  “no”  vote  of  the  entire 
Farm  Bureau  membership  to  Congress. 

30.  Conducted  County  Farm  Bureau  hearings  all  over  America 
and  presented  the  farmers’  own  case  to  Congress  and  the  public. 

31.  Organized  Producers’  Commission  Association  at  E.  St. 
Louis,  that  in  seven  weeks  attained  first  place  among  all  commission 
companies  on  that  market.  It  has  held  that  place  now  for  three  con- 
secutive weeks. 

32.  In  addition  to  the  above  accomplishments,  strong  efforts  are 
being  made  to  reduce  freight  rates.  Some  reductions  have  already 
been  made  on  limestone,  live  stock  and  other  commodities  and  these 
will  hgve  to  be  followed  by  many  others.  Moreover,  manufacturers 


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of  farm  machinery  are  showing  a decided  wish  to  follow  the  sugges- 
tion of  the  National  Federation  and  are  trying  to  get  their  cost  down 
to  a point  where  they  can  furnish  farmers  with  machinery  at  reason- 
able prices. 

33.  Along  many  other  lines  splendid  progress  has  been  made. 
A strong  fight  is  now  on  between  the  capitalistic  interests  wishing  to 
cut  out  the  excess  profits  tax  and  place  the  taxation  burden  upon  the 
middle  classes.  The  National  Federation  is  fighting  this  with  pros- 
pects of  partial  success  at  least. 


Ji  Message  From  President  Harding 

Taken  from  “Our  Common  Country,”  Chapter  IV  on 
“A  merican  A griculture  ” 

“I  believe  that  the  American  people  through  their  Government 
and  otherwise,  not  only  in  behalf  of  the  farmer,  but  in  behalf  of  their 
own  welfare,  and  the  pocketbooks  of  the  consumers  of  America,  will 
encourage,  make  lawful,  and  stimulate  co-operative  buying,  co-opera- 
tive distribution,  and  co-operative  selling  of  farm  products. 

“The  need  of  farm  representation  in  larger  governmental  affairs 
is  recognized.  During  the  past  seven  years  the  right  of  agriculture 
to  a voice  in  government  administration  has  been  practically  ignored, 
and  at  times  the  farmer  has  suffered  grievously  as  a result.  The 
farmer  has  a vital  interest  in  our  trade  relations  with  other  countries, 
in  the  administration  of  our  financial  policies,  and  in  many  of  the 
larger  activities  of  the  o-overnment.  His  interests  must  be  safe- 
guarded by  men  who  understand  his  needs,  he  must  be  actually  and 
practically  represented. 

“The  right  of  farmers  to  form  co-operative  associations  for  the 
marketing  of  their  products  must  be  granted.  The  concert  of  agri- 
culture is  as  essential  to  farms  as  a similar  concert  of  action  is  to 
factories.  A prosperous  agriculture  demands  not  only  efficiency  in 
production,  but  efficiency  in  marketing.  Through  co-operative  asso- 
ciations the  route  between  the  producer  and  the  consumer  can  and 
must  be  shortened.  Wasteful  effort  can  and  must  be  avoided.  Un- 
necessary expense  can  and  must  be  eliminated.  It  is  to  the  advan- 
tage of  all  our  people  that  every  possible  improvement  be  made  in 
our  methods  of  getting  the  products  of  our  farms  into  the  hands  of 
the  people  who  consume  them.  The  legitimate  functions  of  the  mid- 
dleman may  continue  to  be  performed,  by  private  enterprise,  under 
conditions  where  the  middleman  is  necessary  and  gives  his  skill  to 
our  joint  welfare.  The  parasite  in  distribution  who  preys  on  both 
producer  and  consumer  must  no  longer  sap  the  vitality  of  this  funda- 
mental life.’* 


The  Farm  Bureau 

The  Farm  Bureau  has  made  a wonderful  growth.  It  is  thev. 
strongest  organization,  both  numerically  and  financially,  that  the 
farmers  of  the  nation  have  ever  built.  That  is  the  reason  why  it  will 
be  attacked.  That  is  why  some  interests  would  like  to  destroy  it. 
And  that  is  the  reason,  also,  why  some  men  would  like  to  control  it. 

— Wallace  Farmer 


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